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On June 1, a jury ruled in favor of actor Johnny Depp in the dueling defamation cases between him and his ex-wife and actor Amber Heard. The trial garnered national media attention, including on social media, where attacks on Heard exploded. Media Matters compiled and analyzed over 13,700 posts about the trial from news and politics Facebook pages for the duration of the trial — April 11 through June 1 — and found that nine pages affiliated with right-wing media outlet The Daily Wire dominated discussions of the trial, posting thousands of times while earning millions of interactions and v...

On Facebook, right-wing media and Republican candidates have promoted variations of the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy theory that reportedly inspired the latest mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, helping to mainstream the hateful theory. In our latest study, we found that Facebook has profited from at least 50 ads from right-wing political candidates pushing the racist rhetoric, and there were hundreds of posts with similar rhetoric from right-wing media outlets, including Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.

As news started circulating on Monday that Twitter may accept billionaire Elon Musk's bid to buy the social media company, right-leaning Facebook pages praised the deal and Musk’s commitment to so-called “free speech,” earning nearly 11 million interactions while doing so. In a review of Facebook posts from news and politics pages, Media Matters found that right-leaning pages alone earned more interactions  -- fifth-highest in 2022 so far -- on Monday than the combined total earned by left-leaning and nonaligned pages on the same day. In fact, 9 of the top 10 daily Facebook posts a...

Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s absence from the campaign trail has made clear how crucial social media will be to deciding who forms the next government.

Through their coverage and on social media, right-wing media have ramped up attacks accusing LGBTQ people and opponents of Florida’s latest anti-LGBTQ legislation of “grooming” children. In a new study, Media Matters analyzed millions of Facebook and Twitter posts that push related anti-LGBTQ language and found this narrative initially spiked in March with anti-LGBTQ Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” at the helm, and the attacks further ramped up in April as right-wing outlets and figures with large followings further amplified the language.  Key findings include: News and politics ...